Classical Conditioning Flashcards
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What is classical conditioning?
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- When we learn that two things happen together - we associate them with each other.
2
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What does it mean by ‘Before Learning’ ?
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- The natural stimulus and response relationship.
3
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What does it mean by ‘During Learning’ ? - hint: Think Pavlov
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- This is learning process where dogs where the dogs learn to associate the bell and food this process needed to be done 4 or 5 times before the association was made.
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What does it mean by ‘After Learning’ ?
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- This is the new learnt behaviour.
5
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What is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) ?
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- The stimulus which automatically triggers a specific reflex response e.g. food
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What is the unconditioned response (UCR) ?
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- the automatic reflex response to the unconditioned stimulus e.g. salivation
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What is the neutral stimulus (Ns) ?
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- A stimulus which would not normally trigger a specific reflex response e.g. bell does not normally trigger salivation
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What is the conditioned stimulus (CS) ?
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- The NS now triggers the reflex response e.g. the bell now triggers salivation
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What is the conditioned Response (CR) ?
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- This is the learned response i.e. the reflex behaviour is triggered by the CS e.g. salivation in response to the Bell.
10
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What is extinction?
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- the learned response appears to been extinguished.
11
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What is spontaneous recovery?
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When the association between two things has not been extinguished?
12
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What is Generalisation?
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- When the conditional response is triggered by a stimulus response.
13
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What is discrimination?
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-e.g. when the buzzers are sounded which are more and more different from the original tone (the CS), the dog still no longer salivates.
14
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When does one-trial learning occur?
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- Sometimes learning occurs when the unconditioned and the conditioned stimulus are paired together only once.
